Japanese Tokuryū and the new wave of anonymous online crime

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Japanese AKB48 idols dressed in police uniform on a prevention poster of a Police station to preventing elderly people to be targeted by criminals via phone fraud (Source: Alamy)

The Japan National Police Agency reported last week that over 10,000 tokuryū (anonymous and fluid) criminals were arrested in the three years up to 2023. According to the NPA, t…